At one time in American history, there was a class of people that were promised protection from the elements and domestic threats, housing, medical care, and all of their physical needs to be met in return for their labor.

That class of people was called "slaves", and it took the better part of 100 years following our country's independence to gain their freedom.

Now, the left presses for a continually socialist agenda, promising all of the above...and there are a great number of people who are blindsided to the fact that that, too, is slavery. Socialism on a small scale could work, but the participants in a socialist community should be involved in that enterprise on a VOLUNTARY basis. Anything less, any move towards indentured servitude, whether it be to an individual or a government, is a move towards slavery and should be resisted by all freedom loving individuals.

The solutions to the world's ills will never be met as long as we insist on reducing freedoms and restricting the rights of individuals. Unless/until we can be the very MODEL of freedom, we cannot in good faith preach it to others.